Jeopardy

True Crime

100

In 2014, two Wisconsin teenagers attempted to murder their friend to appease a fictional character.

The Slender Man stabbing

200

This ancient man, who bled to death and later froze, was said to have been murdered based on evidence of an arrowhead to the shoulder.

Ötzi (also known as the Iceman)

300

A German radiology technologist who became obsessed with one of his patients and later went on to keep her corpse even after she had passed.

Carl Tanzler (also known as Count Carl von Cosel)

400

Known as America's first male serial killer.

H. H. Holmes

500

An American woman who wanted to "have killed more people—helpless people—than any other man or woman who ever lived."

Jane Toppan

Poetry

100

This poet wrote "Hope is the Thing with Feathers."

Emily Dickinson

200

This Italian scholar wrote many sonnets based off of his adoration for a woman named Laura.

Francesco Petrarca 

300

An American poet who is often referred to as the "father of free verse."

Walt Whitman

400

The first African American (woman and poet) to receive a Pulitzer Prize.

Gwendolyn Brooks

500

Best known for "The Wasteland."

T. S. Eliot

Geography

100

St. Peter's Basilica can be found here.

Vatican City

200

This city is located in both Asia and Europe.

Istanbul

300

This many timezones are in Canada.

Six

400

This amount of countries border Russia.

Fourteen

500

The world's busiest airport is located in this city in America.

Atlanta, Georgia (USA)

Culture

100

A traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live insect larvae.

Casu Marzu

200

This country is known as "the land of no rivers."

Saudi Arabia

300

This country is the largest producer of oxygen.

Siberia

400

In this country, it has become normal for citizens to socialize and hang out in cemeteries. 

Denmark

500

The name of a festival in Japan that is all about death.

Try-Before-You-Die Festival (Shukatsu Festa)

In the Body

100

This part of the brain is responsible for memory, attention, perceptual awareness, "thinking", language, and consciousness.

Cerebral cortex

200

One of the few body parts that is regarded as useless.

Tail bone

300

The human heart beats this many times per day.

100,000

400

Blood makes up this percent of your body weight.

8%

500

The average human brain weighs this much.

Three pounds